Celebration of combined leapers. I composed this problem in 2000 and it was intended for
MT Calvet. I've sent it to Denis Blondel by e-mail, however, he didn't get it.
I think it's a pity as it would have a good chance in the tourney.
Although all keys are captures, general strategy and geometry is intriguing
and perhaps this combination of thematical elements wasn't shown yet:
carousel change in 4 phases, keys form cross of rook and all defences are to
the same square, all errors are unguards.

And now something completely different! 3rd TT PaM asked for helpmates with 3 solutions
and a cycle of something. "Something" are here arrival squares of bK and white grasshoppers,
giving complete cycle, or only moves of white grasshoppers, giving usual cycle in h#2.
Andernach condition is here only a technical device allowing guard of transmuting flights
by Black's move.

MT of Alphonse Grünenwald asked for any kind of problems using grasshoppers and/or nightriders,
but no other fairy pieces. Majority of my entries and many other problems were composed in the short time
period in June 2001, when I had compulsory holiday and by coincidence I felt capable of composing a lot...
and indeed I did it.

In this helpmate grasshoppers don't play prominent role, only a minor one, despite indirect antibattery
in the mating move. That's why the problem didn't make it high in the award, it is understandable.
Even if the analogy isn't perfect, it is not bad and rich, and moreover, despite
twinning by moving bK pieces from one coal heap are mostly used in the other phase too.